The Wire is a British avant gare music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music. Since then it has covered "post-rock" (a term coined by Simon Reynolds in the pages of The Wire), hip hop, modern classical, free improvisation, and various forms of electronic music.